András Szántó
Cultural strategy adviser
András Szántó advises museums, foundations, educational institutions, and corporations on cultural strategy and programme development around the world. He earned his PhD in Sociology from Columbia University. He is a widely published author, with articles appearing in The New York Times, Artforum, Artnet News and The Art Newspaper, among others. As a consultant, he collaborates with some of the most important public and private cultural institutions internationally. He has taught courses on art management and the art market at the Sotheby’s Institute of Art and directed the National Arts Journalism Program at Columbia University. At the Metropolitan Museum of Art, he helped launch and coordinate the Global Museum Leaders Colloquium, a lecture series for museum directors. He is a regular moderator of the Art Basel Conversations. Born in Budapest, he has curated exhibitions on Hungarian art of the 1960s and 1970s. His most recent books are The Future of the Museum: 28 Dialogues (2020), Imagining the Future Museum: 21 Dialogues with Architects (2022), and The Future of the Art World: 38 Dialogues (2025). He lives in Brooklyn, USA.